30GB 5th Gen: Someone please tell me my iPod hasn't died...

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30GB 5th Gen: Someone please tell me my iPod hasn't died...

I bought a used 30GB 5th gen probably a good eight months ago, and it has worked beautifully. However, I hooked it up to my computer today, which I had freshly installed Vista RC1 onto, and attempted to format my iPod since I was going to use it as a removable HD for a few hours. Vista gave me an error, I figured no biggie, just a bug in Vista or something, I'll format it using my laptop (running Xubuntu 6.06) instead. However, when I went to plug it in to my laptop, when I tried to turn it on, it got stuck at the Apple startup screen, and then the HD started clicking (oh god please not the clicks of death). I ran the diagnostic (center+|<<) but it found nothing wrong. Is there ANY way to fix this?

Edit: Ran the diagnostic again and something is wrong.

Failure Code: 118 with 8 fails
Failure Code: 119 with 8 fails

Posted on Sep 17, 2006 12:48 AM

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Mitch 751

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Sep 17, 2006 1:21 AM in response to TheSaladCaper

Hi,
Have a try the following, prefer to connect your iPod with a Mac computer

For Mac computer
1. Open the disk utility, hope your iPod appears there (left hand side), highlight it
2. Go to Tab “Partition”, click either “Delete” or “Partition”, if fails, skip this step and go to 3
3. Go to Tab “Erase” , choose Volume Format as “MAC OS Extended (Journaled), and click Erase, again if fails, skip it and go to 4
4. Same as step 3, but open the “Security Options....” and choose “Zero Out Data” before click Erase. It will take 1 to 2 hours to complete.
5. Eject your iPod and do a Reset
6. Open the iPod Updater and click “Restore”

For Window computer
Go to folder “My Computer”
Hope you can see your iPod there and right click on the iPod
Choose “Format”. Ensure the settings are at “Default” and that “Quick Format” is not checked
Now select “Format”
Eject your iPod and do a Reset
Open the iPod Updater and click “Restore”
In case you do not manage to do a “Format” on a window computer, try to use some 3rd party disk utility software, e.g.“HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool”.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=501330&tstart=0

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